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Power Query text and number format

Hi,    It maybe a simple solution but I am struggling to get my column in Power Query (PowerBI) to accept a number and text format.    Could you please advise on how I can keep both number and te...
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    4 years ago

    You have to find a step where the function "Table.TransformColumnTypes" is used for that specific column "Proc. Type" for the first time. If in one of the previous steps the type was changed to number, trying to change data type to text later on will not "recover" the data. In the screenshot we cannot see what previous steps were applied so we can just guess why it does not work for you.

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Thank you, I tried that initially but it still keeps the text as an error 

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You have to find a step where the function "Table.TransformColumnTypes" is used for that specific column "Proc. Type" for the first time. If in one of the previous steps the type was changed to number, trying to change data type to text later on will not "recover" the data. In the screenshot we cannot see what previous steps were applied so we can just guess why it does not work for you.